I am getting errors when I try and do a dry-run of a local rsync on cygwin on windows 2000. Here is an example command line: /usr/bin/rsync --archive --dry-run --ignore-times --stats --verbose /cygdrive/d/EarthBulletin/data/ /cygdrive/d/EarthBulletin/data_new/ It fails with the following messages: rsync.exe.stackdump rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(151) Any ideas of what is wrong? I've tried a few different combinations of options. And actually, the reason I am doing the dry run is that local syncing via rsync on cygwin is pretty slow. I wanted rsync to just figure out what needs to be done, and then I'll use perl's File::Copy module which does a system copy to actually copy the files, hoping this will be faster. I got about a gig of stuff to move around, so its a big issue for me. -- Joseph Annino Consulting - Perl, PHP, MySQL, Oracle, etc. jannino@jannino.com - http://www.jannino.com